As a verb producer

As a noun autotroph is

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(economics) An individual or organization that creates goods and services.

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, title=Internal Combustion
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, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers , and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}

One who produces an artistic production like a CD, a theater production, a film, a TV program and so on.

(biology) An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.

(UK, slang) An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven days in which to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station.

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Noun

(biology) Any organism that can synthesize its food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy.

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, author=
, title=The Smallest Cell
, volume=101, issue=2, page=83
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, passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}